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18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )
11/04/2024 Samsung adds more language availability within Galaxy AI ( Electronics )
11/04/2024 YouTube Music promises Podcasts will get better on the platform ( General )
09/04/2024 WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing ( General )
09/04/2024 Google Messages will soon start to warn you when tapping on links sent by unknown senders ( General )
08/04/2024 Siri might end up King in the realm of digital assistants after iOS 18 AI makeover ( Electronics )
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Retail Asia24/12/2019

Beauty retailer Bonjour Holdings has warned shareholders of a “substantially increased loss” for the current year as the social unrest and falling Mainland Chinese visitor numbers take their toll. Last year, Bonjour Holdings reported a net loss of HK$39.6 million (US$5 million). In a letter to shareholders, chairman Wilson Ip did not put a figure […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2019

Budget carrier Cebu Pacific has stopped its flights to and from Siem Reap, leaving only one Philippine carrier servicing the Cambodia-Philippines air route. Difficulties in turning out a profit was the main reason for Cebu Pacific’s departure from the Kingdom, according to Philippine media reports last week. Cebu Pacific ended its Siem Reap flights yesterday. […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2019

Cebu Pacific is offering promotional fares for the Chinese New Year, the airline said Sunday. The country’s largest carrier is offering P99 base fare for flights originating from Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Clark, and Davao, while passengers can book a Manila to Kota Kinabalu flight for as low as P149. For the complete list of […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2019

Japanese second-hand retailer Bookoff is planning to double its outlets to 10 locations in Malaysia. It’s fifth Jalan Jalan Japan store is due to open in Vandal Baru Bangui near Kuala Lumpur at the end of the month. “Local people have a preference for new and used products made in Japan,” said Bookoff Group spokesman Takaharu Kominato […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2019

Vietjet Air CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is one of 100 most powerful women in the world this year, according to a Forbes listing. The only Vietnamese woman on the list, Thao was placed 52nd, down eight places from last year. This is the third year in a row she has been included in Forbes magazine’s […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2019

AirAsia India on Sunday announced the appointment of Ankur Garg as its chief commercial officer (CCO), a role in which he will be in-charge of areas such as network and revenue management, marketing and sales, and cargo. Garg had quit as the vice-president of revenue management at IndiGoNSE -1.82 % a few weeks back. “Ankur […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

Japanese airline ANA has opened a pop-up shop equipped with avatar robots that enable customers to shop remotely. ANA said it’s pop-up at Coredo Muromachi 3 shopping mall in Nihonbashi which will remain open until December 24, is fitted with stick-shaped robots called ‘Newme’. Through the robots, shoppers will be able to browse and buy […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

Singapore hardware chain Home-Fix is closing its last physical stores this week as it restructures under interim judicial management. The home-grown chain was founded in 1993 and once had 20 stores across the city-state, but by the end of this weekend will have only an e-commerce site left, a victim of changing retail environment and […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

Beijing-based e-commerce retailer LightInTheBox achieved US$59.9 million sales in its third quarter to September, up 35 percent year on year. LightInTheBox said third-quarter net income was US$10 million, in contrast to a loss of US$17.8 million in the same quarter a year ago. Taking into account the change in fair value of the convertible promissory […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

Singapore retail sales – excluding motor vehicles – slipped by 0.6 percent year-on-year in October. Including vehicles, the headline figure was down 4.3 percent. Month-on-month, sales declined by 1.5 percent, excluding motor vehicles. Statistics Singapore estimated the city-state’s retail sales were worth about S$3.6 billion (US$2.7 billion) in October, of which about 6.1 percent were […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

A Chinese court has ruled Japanese retailer Muji must pay RMB626,000 (US$89,000) and apologize to a local firm after losing a trademark-infringement case, according to the South China Morning Post Muji had appealed a 2017 ruling finding against its use of a trademark currently held by Beijing Cottonfield Textile Corp, which was registered four years […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

7-Eleven India is poised to launch in Mumbai, marking the first major international convenience-store chain to take on local players. Master franchisee Future Group’s founder and CEO Kishore Biyani said the firm will concentrate on development in Mumbai only for the initial few years of business, with the first outlets launching in March. “There will […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2019

In an attempt to make your conversations as safe as possible, Google is adding all sorts of security features. The last one comes is meant to protect you from spam and involves a new feature called Verified SMS that now rolling out to Messages app in several countries. The new feature adds another layer of […]

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Retail Asia19/12/2019

Investigators have discovered 7-Eleven Japan to have been underpaying staff since the 1970s, according to a Nikkei report. The review uncovered inaccuracies in the formula used by the retailer to calculate overtime wages for part-time staff since the business was established. The error resulted in staff earning less than mandated by Japan’s Labour Standards Act. […]

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Retail Asia19/12/2019

A sale of the Tesco Asia business by its UK parent would prioritize shareholders over sound long-term economic strategy, says GlobalData. Over the weekend, Tesco announced it had received an expression of interest from an unnamed party to acquire the Tesco business in Malaysia and the Tesco Lotus operation in Thailand. The company has subsequently […]

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Retail Asia19/12/2019

So let’s say that you spent countless hours developing a new Android app that you believe will change the world. You submit it to Google and it passes with flying colors. The app is published but a bug prevents Android users from finding it and as a result, there are practically no installs. Is this […]

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Retail Asia19/12/2019

Flying from Hanoi to Saigon takes five minutes more per month due to overload at Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Duong Tri Thana, Vietnam Airlines CEO, told a forum Wednesday continued delays at Tan Son Nhat could drag down flight quality and hamper economic growth. The route itself ranked as the sixth busiest domestic route in […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2019

Even as Indian carriers lag behind in introducing inflight connectivity for passengers, there is action in the Asia-Pacific region, which is expected to account for roughly 40% of new commercial aircraft deliveries over the next 20 years. Inmarsat, which has high hopes for the region, says six AirAsia aircraft have been fitted with its GX Aviation Ka-band […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2019

Today is a day of operating system updates for Apple as the company dropped iOS 13.3, iPad OS 13.3, HomePod 13.3, tvOS 13.3 and watchOS 6.1.1. The update to iOS 13.3 for the iPhone and iPad OS 13.3 for, well, you know, adds Communication Limits support in Screen Time. The latter measures how long you use your […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2019

Vietnamese matchmaker Thong Nhat Match JSC plans to modernize operations due to dwindling sales. The company’s board said it would halt match production next year and delist its DTN shares from the unlisted public companies bourse (UPCoM). Annual match sales hit near 100 million boxes last year, down 45 percent from 10 years earlier, and […]

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